Airwar over Denmark

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Wellington III BK341 crashed Ho Bay on 11/10-1942.


The aircraft belonged to RAF 75 Sqn. Bomber Command and was coded AA-?
T/O Mildenhall. OP: Gardening Kattegat.


The aircraft was hit by flak from Luftwaffe I.zug 2./lei Res.Flakabt.844 and Hafenschützflotille Esbjerg Boote 2 at 23:29 hours and crashed into Ho Bay approx. one kilometre east of Skalling Ende killing all onboard.


                                                 (Via Rudolf Clausen)


 
Navigator/Bomber Sgt Harold Wolfenden, W/Op-Air/Gnr Sgt Algernon Parsons and Air Gnr Sgt Roy H. Scott were all laid to rest in Fovrfelt cemetery in Esbjerg on 16/10.
 


                                              (Via Rudolf Clausen)

 


                                                   (Via Rudolf Clausen)


Pilot Sgt Charles J. Shalfoon RNZAF and W/Op-Air Gnr. Sgt Sydney Posner have no known graves and are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.



Sources: CWGC, BE, AS 63-94, RL 19/472+455, KT.

 

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